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Critics were equivocal; the Washington Post 's Rita Kempley called it "stale feminist fluff."
The second free-spirit-mom-on-the-run-with-teen-age-daughter story in three months receives much better reviews than the first ( Anywhere But Here ): It "impresses with its freshly considered action and total avoidance of the stale and routine" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). British stage actress Janet McTeer's performance as the mother stands out, and the low-budget, genuine feeling of the film results in "one of the few movies ever made that doesn't feel like a movie," in which the characters "throb and course with life" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). (Click to read David Edelstein's review in Slate .)
Because political information goes stale faster than bread, the first destination for obsessives should be a news site.
Stale gender roles: In one of its twin Bradley articles, the WP notes an interesting gender split in a poll of New York voters: gentlemen preferred Bill 56 percent to 33 percent, while women favored Gore 48 percent to 29 percent.
(There's only one copy--a device that was stale a century ago when Hedda Gabler burned Ejlert Lovborg's manuscript and in the age of word processors is just inane.)